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Michael Stevenson, aka Dai Bando, Johnny Foreigner, Monsieur Pas De Merde, is a blogger of French and British culture. His blogs "Pas De Merde" and "The Hobbledehoy" have been called "marvelous" by some, and "meh" by others.
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French Films

CITE MOI

“I am in no mood to be deceived any longer by the crafty devil and false character whose greatest pleasure is to take advantage of everyone.” – Camille Claudel

Amedeo Clemente Modigliani – portrait of Paul Guillaume

““I think my life is of great importance, but I also think it is meaningless.” – Albert Camus

“One must keep a few smiles aside to laugh at oneself on joyless days” – Charles Trenet http://yquotes.com/quotes/charles-trenet/#ixzz4NRfqbihb

Jeanne Cherhal “If you come back, I’ll cancel everything”

“I work in whatever medium likes me at the moment.” – Marc Chagall

“All right, Popeye’s here! get your hands on your heads, get off the bar, and get on the wall!” – The French Connection

It’s Madison time…

“All you need for a movie is a gun and a girl” – Jean-Luc Godard

“You think that being a girl is degrading, but secretly, you’d love to know what it’s like, wouldn’t you?”

“Life is short. Forgive quickly. Kiss slowly.” – Robert Doisneau

“Painting is easy when you don’t know how, but very difficult when you do.” – Degas

“The real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother Nature. We are facing a formidable enemy in this field. It is the hunters… and to convince them to leave their guns on the wall is going to be very difficult.” – Jacques Cousteau

“The harmonica is a great instrument.” – Toots Thielemans

“Departure” – Arthur Rimbaud

“I am a child who is getting on.” – Marc Chagall

“Besides, he’s a saint.” – Au Hasard Balthazar

“C’est extra. C’est extra.C’est extra.” – Leo Ferre

“A woman has to be intelligent, have charm, a sense of humor, and be kind. It’s the same qualities I require from a man.”

“Come, come, my baby come. I will show you the world” – Jain

“Oh, My man I love him so” – Mistinguett

“When you write a song, most of the words you use are in black and white, and then, from time to time, you use one that’s in color. These words in color are a part of ourselves, because we give them a meaning. If you like, we give them a third dimension.” – Jacques Brel

“I invent nothing, I rediscover.” – Auguste Rodin

“You have to be very fond of men. Very, very fond. You have to be very fond of them to love them. Otherwise they’re simply unbearable” – Marguerite Duras

“One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman. One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius. Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.” – Simone de Beauvoir

“Spira, spera.” (Breathe, hope.) – Victor Hugo

Jacques Tati “You won’t find another Chaplin, you won’t find another Keaton, because the school is closed.”

“Sanctuary!” – Quasimodo

“Let’s play with sound, forget all knowledge and instrumental skills, and just use instinct – the same way punk did” – Yann Tiersen

““All sins are attempts to fill voids.” – Simone Weil

“I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.” – Baudelaire

“I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.” – Claude Monet

“The greatest murderers attend the highest Masses” – Georges Brassens

“Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things that revolve around love.” – Marc Chagall

“I live in the corner of old Montmartre My father comes home sozzled every night” – Zaz

“Although I felt ashamed of it at one time, I do like Breathless very much, but now I see where it belongs – along with Alice in Wonderland. I thought it was Scarface.” – Jean-Luc Godard

“Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.” – Colette (Portrait by Jacques Humbert

“One should always be drunk. That’s all that matters; that’s our one imperative need. So as not to feel Time’s horrible burden one which breaks your shoulders and bows you down, you must get drunk without cease. But with what? With wine, poetry, or virtue as you choose. But get drunk!”